In lieu of an earlier post, I find most people really don't know anything at all about the giants of our past, and often assume it's all a big myth. Lincoln was so matter of fact about it, likely because it was a general known fact at that time. In 1881, Congress gave sole excavation rights of these mounds to the Smithsonian and gave them thousands of tax payer dollars to do so more than once. We all know what happens when they get involved in recovering history; anything consequential disappears. Some of their findings were made public in their Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution for years 1873, 1875, and 1877. I'll post a link below to 1873 and you can change the years to view the rest. They found skulls measuring 36" in circumference, skeletons belonging to "gigantic savages," and so on. Publicly, The Smithsonian seems to mostly or only talk about the EASTERN mounds, but look for the stories from the Anasazi and also San Canyon Pueblo where footprints of 6 toed giants were found.
Would love to see what anyone knows about all this or give more info for those that want to know more. Of course this is just a glimpse of the story, definitely enough here to get started. This rabbit hole goes on and on once you start, but you will not be disappointed. It's more like, whole rabbit.
For those that want to go down the Giants/Nephilim road, there's also a very convincing story about giant remains being found on Jekyll island, along with a sacrificial altar built the same way the Canaanites built theirs. If it's true, the building that the infamous banksters' meeting happened in was built right on top of that altar. Search for Tim Bence on that story.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/34977#page/426/mode/1up (Human skull found measured 36 inches in circumference) https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:6?rgn=div1;view=fulltext https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRECB-1881-pt3-v11/pdf/GPO-CRECB-1881-pt3-v11-12.pdf
I have thought along much the same lines as you have mentioned. After much research I stumbled on to something that takes the related but somewhat disparate ideas you mentioned and ties them together fairly tightly, and that is the Anunnaki.
I have found that virtually everyone I've mentioned it to wholly rejects having their worldview disturbed so significantly by the acceptance of such a reality. I myself could not possibly reject it after all the evidence I've accumulated. But if you want to know in a far more precise way how the things you've mentioned are simply mischaracterized aspects of a single phenomenon, let me know.
Thanks for your reply!
What you call the Anunnaki, I believe, are the Watchers. The fallen angels that mated with human women who bore giants, taught them secrets they were not supposed to know, and were ultimately the reason God had to flood the Earth. I've gone down the Ancient Alien path, but it all leads right back to what is written in the bible. You can trace the history of their offspring (6 fingers and 6 toes is a gene that came from the Nephilim) and in every case, these are tribes surrounded by violence and human sacrifice. If it were "aliens" that produced the Nephilim, they sure as hell don't have our best interest in mind. Yet the ancient alien crowd seems to think they are some benevolent group worth looking up to, but that is simply not the case historically.
Yes, the Anunnaki and the Watchers are essentially the same group of 600 aliens that came to Earth, and the "Fallen Angels" are a subgroup of 200 aliens that were marooned here.
The name of "Watchers" comes, I believe, from a basic mistranslation thousands of years ago. The Sumerians sometimes referred to the group of "gods" as the I.GI.GI, by which they meant "the 600", but it turns out it can also be translated as "watchers".
The "War in Heaven", which was a dispute among these aliens, caused a faction of 200 to be stay behind here while the others withdrew. That faction is led by Satan, who also goes by many other names. But the key here is to recognize how the numbers from so many various sources tie together.
If you're interested in Biblical research, you may want to look at Jude 1:9. Conventional scholars basically wave their hands around and move on quickly, but an understanding of the Anunnaki provides a very precise explanation for that verse, which of course is further evidence of the Anunnaki thesis itself. Let me know if you'd like to know more.
BTW, as far as the aliens being benevolent, it's about like saying "humans are belevolent". Well, some are and some aren't, right? And it's not that they have human characteristics, we get it from them.